General Description
GP329730B, a highly integrated SoC (System-On a Chip) by Generalplus, is a high cost-performance ratio solution for multi-media and video streaming applications. It is developed with a high performance and power efficient ARM’s ARM926EJ-S core operating at up to CPU/system 513/171MHz with significant enhancements in image, video processing, and power savings. Other features include DDR memory, 1080p30 H.264/JPEG CODEC engine, TFT-LCD interface, MIPI TX interface, CMOS sensor interface, MIPI CSI interface, scaling engine, Picture Process Unit (PPU), 16-channel Sound Process Unit (SPU), USB 2.0 OHCI/EHCI, USB 2.0 HS device, etc. GP329730B processor is designed to connect with various types of memory card interfaces such as SD and MMC. For more information about its features, please refer to the following section.
Features
- ARM926EJ-S CPU with both 16K-byte I/D-cache, embedded JTAG ICE, and working frequency up to 513MHz
- Up to 192KB SRAM for local data buffer
- Embedded 256Mb DDR SDRAM
- SPI FLASH controller, allowing CPU directly runs program on it. 1-bit/2-bit/4-bit IO mode supported
- Picture Process Unit. (PPU)
- 4 Text layers + 1024 internal Sprites + 4096 extended Sprites
- Virtual 3D effect for text and sprite
- QVGA/VGA/D1 and arbitrary size up to 2032x2032 output
- Line-based or frame-based operation
- 1024x768 LCD Resolution output
- Texture mapping with anti-aliasing and bilinear interpolation
- Sound Process Unit (SPU)
- 16 hardware PCM/ADPCM channels
- Dynamic volume compressor
- MP3/WMA decoder
- JPEG CODEC
- ISO/IEC 10918-1 baseline JPEG
- High-speed decoding and encoding with resolution up to 64M pixels
- Hardware Motion JPEG decoding and encoding (up to 1080p@30fps) for real-time video record and playback application
- 264 CODEC
- 264 baseline/high profile CODEC
- Up-to 720p60 or 1080p30 for real-time video record and playback application
- Video-in & CMOS sensor interface and CCIR601/CCIR656 CSI standard supported.
- Two sets of two/one-lane MIPI CSI input supported
- 5 is a deep learning accelerator which supports various deep neural network models. Applications such as object classifications, object detection and face detection are all possible, and will enrich user experience.
- NAND FLASH controller with ECC and 4/8/12-bit BCH
- Eight-channel DMA controller with AES/DES/3DES function
- Mono and 16 gray levels STN-LCD controller
- Rotating engine supports 90/180/270/360/Mirror/Flip function
- Y only rotating engine supports rotate at any angle
- Line-based rotating engine can rotate a DRAM image buffer by the multiples of 90 degrees. With TFT controller, the rotated data will be sent to TFT controller directly, and there won’t be any extra bandwidth consumption.
- Two sets of TFT-LCD controller.
- (serial RGB)
- (serial RGB dummy)
- Parallel RGB (6-6-6, 5-6-5, 8-8-8).
- I80 (8-bit/16-bit/18-bit system bus) I/F type
- CCIR601/CCIR656
- Timing Controller for TFT-LCD drivers
- Scaling engine inside with programmable up-scaling and down-scaling factor
- Gamma Table Adjustment(TFT1 Only)
- Up to two-lane MIPI DSI interface which supports panel horizontal resolution up to 1280.
- Two sets of PSCAL supporting transform and zoom-in/out image data to the format supported by JPEG/ ISP/ PPU/ H.264 MB2SCAN/ DRAM
- One Y-only PSCAL
- Embedded ISP (Image Processing Unit), supporting raw data sensor up to 5M pixels 30FPS
- Histogram statistics for auto brightness and contrast
- Programmable RGB gamma correction
- Color conversion matrix for various post-image processing
- Lens Uniform Correction
- WDR
- Sharpen
- De-noise
- Bad-pixel cancelation
- AE/AWE
- Binning Mode
- Auto-Focus
- Image Processing Unit
- width more than 2048 pixels
- Address-remap supporting direct addressing and Coordinates addressing
- Color-remap-only supporting ARGB155 and RGB565
- Sixteen OP modes supported
- Support Alpha transform
- Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 high/full speed compliance device and USB OHCI/EHCE host controller with built-in transceiver.
- Watchdog timer
- Real-time clock
- Eight 32-bit timers/counters with PWM output capability.
- Eight-channel quadrature decoder
- Two sets of SD 2.0/MMC interface
- Two sets of SPI (master/slave) 1,2,4 bit interface with data rate up to 85.5Mbps(depend on PCB layout).
- Three sets of UART (asynchronous serial I/O) or IrDA interface with baud rate up to 1.8432Mbps and 115.2Kbps; smart card interface (ISO7816) supported
- Three sets of I2C controller
- Four sets of I2S input with 24-bit resolution and up to 192KHz sample rate
- Four sets of I2S output with 24-bit resolution and up to 192KHz sample rate
- Embedded Ethernet MAC hardware
- 85 general programmable I/O ports (GPIO) with pull-high/low control
- Power management
- 2V DC2DC Feedback reference voltage out for core logic
- 3V to 2.8V regulator for sensor’s power
- 3V to 1.8V regulator for sensor’s power
- 3V to 2.5V regulator for DDR memory
- Dedicated 3.3V to 3.0V LDO for audio ADC
- Dedicated 3.3V to 3.0V LDO for PLLs
- Low voltage reset
- RTC with independent power supply
- Power-down mode with low standby current, typically less than (TBD)uA
- Programmable PLL frequency from 54MHz to 1188MHz
- PDM to PCM converter which supports MEMS microphones with PDM interface.
- Audio compressor engine which enhances audio quality.
- 16-bit stereo DAC (2-channel) for audio playback
- 16-bit ADC with MIC for audio recording
- 12-bit SAR ADC with 6 line-in channels and 1Msps
- MIC with digital AGC (auto gain control)
- LQFP128 package